Advancing Science & Practice in the Retail Environment: An NCI-funded Center
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A new report from Truth Initiative examines current policies and strategies to move toward the end of commercial tobacco and nicotine use. Policies to achieve this outcome include those that decrease the access, appeal, and addictiveness of products; increase cessation interventions and services; and denormalize all tobacco use. They are a set of strategies aimed [...]
The San Diego City Attorney has filed a suit against two businesses, alleging they continued to sell flavored tobacco products after California law prohibited their distribution. The suit accuses Keg n’ Bottle and Payless Smoke Shop of repeatedly selling the products between May and August of this year. The sale of flavored tobacco products was [...]
ChangeLab Solutions and the CDC have partnered to help tobacco prevention staff and partners frame their communications on tobacco-related health disparities in ways that minimize racial biases and foster support for effective policy solutions. Messaging that focuses on disparities can reinforce biases about the communities that are most harmed by commercial tobacco, leading policymakers to [...]
The Los Angeles Times recently published a revealing story about how the tobacco industry has used the deaths of George Floyd and Eric Garner at the hands of police to alarm Black smokers about proposals to prohibit the sale of menthol cigarettes. Paid lobbyists for Big Tobacco have suggested to legislators that banning menthol would [...]
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously June 1 to ban the sale of all flavored tobacco products except flavored shisha tobacco, allowing it to be sold in some hookah lounges. The law does not ban the possession or use of flavored tobacco, only its sale. The ban is scheduled to go into effect January [...]
Cleveland (an ASPiRE city) is considering an ordinance to prohibit the sale of menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products. Cleveland Public Health Director Dr. David Margolius said Cleveland has the highest smoking rate in the nation at 35%, well above the national average of 12%. “Most smokers, in Cleveland specifically, want to quit,” Margolius [...]
In February, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling affirming Los Angeles County’s 2019 law prohibiting the sale of flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes and flavored e-cigarettes. The Public Health Law Center called the court’s denial “an important victory for public health” that “preserves the clear authority of [...]
On March 10, officials in Chicago (an ASPiRE city) announced a $23.8M settlement with JUUL Labs over claims that the company was engaged in harmful and deceptive business practices by marketing and selling vaping products to underage users. Dr. Allison Arwady, Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, applauded the announcement. “E-cigarette businesses cannot [...]
The Detroit News cited ASPiRE’s research in a recent story about efforts to pass a statewide ban on flavored tobacco products in Michigan. “Eighty-five percent of the city’s population lives within a 10-minute walk of a tobacco retailer, according to ASPiRE, a center funded by the National Cancer Institute,” the story reported. The data is being [...]
The New York Times reported that R.J. Reynolds has responded to California’s prohibition on the sale of most flavored tobacco products with a marketing campaign touting new nonmenthol versions of Camel and Newport brands that it says offer “a taste that satisfies the senses” and “a new fresh twist.” The California law prohibits the sale [...]